Researcher’s Perceptions on Publishing “Negative” Results and Open Access
Authors : Lucía Echevarría, Alberto Malerba, Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza Scientific advance is based on reproducibility, corroboration, and availability of resea...
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International authorship and collaboration across bioRxiv preprints
Authors : Richard J Abdill, Elizabeth M Adamowicz, Ran Blekhman Preprints are becoming well established in the life sciences, but relatively little is known abo...
Building trust in preprints: recommendations for servers and other stakeholders
Authors : Jeffrey Beck, Christine Ferguson, Kathryn Funk, Brooks Hanson, Melissa Harrison, Michele Ide-Smith, Rachael Lammey, Maria Levchenko, Alex Mendonça, Mi...
The Adoption of Open Access Journals for Publishing Management Research: A Review of the Literature and the Experience of the University of the West Indies
Authors : Haven Allahar, Ron Sookram The article reviews the literature in the field of academic journal publishing highlighting the phenomenon of the recent en...
Publishing at Any Cost? The Need for the Improvement of the Quality of Scholarly Publications
Authors : Maria José Sá, Carlos Miguel Ferreira, Ana Isabel Santos, Sandro Serpa At a time of great dynamism among publishers of scientific publications, with t...
Investigating academic library responses to predatory publishing in the United States, Canada and Spanish-speaking Latin America
Authors : Jairo Buitrago-Ciro, Lynne Bowker Purpose This is a comparative investigation of how university libraries in the United States, Canada and Spanish-spe...
A Provisional System to Evaluate Journal Publishers Based on Partnership Practices and Values Shared with Academic Institutions and Libraries
Author : Rachel Caldwell Background Journals with high impact factors (IFs) are the “coin of the realm” in many review, tenure, and promotion decisions, ipso fa...